Assessing recovery-related behaviors, emotions, and cognitions among members of alcoholics anonymous over 7 days: Quantitative daily diary data

This was a quantitative daily dairy study that consisted of an initial baseline assessment followed by 7 nightly reports collected each evening. Participants were members of Alcoholics Anonymous (N = 113) and were recruited through social media networks (e.g., large recovery-related Facebook groups, twitter, Instagram, etc.), an email list from people in recovery who had previously participated in research, and through the use of snowball sampling. The analyses used in the resultant article was multilevel modeling with daily reports nested within individuals (LaBelle, 2020). These data may be reused for cross-sectional studies to look at relationships among the study variables, or across days to assess individual differences in behavior.


Value of the data
• These data provide a novel perspective of the daily behaviors, emotions, and cognitions associated with people in both short-term and long-term recovery from alcohol use disorder. • Researchers interested in recovery from addiction, recovery processes, personality factors associated with recovery, and who are interested in daily diary and time-series sampling will be interested in this data. • The data can be used to investigate individual differences in helping behavior, gratitude, hypersensitive narcissism, self-absorption, self-efficacy, social contact, exercise habits, positive/negative affect, and physical activity over a time period of one week. Additionally, measures that assess addiction severity, adult attachment, gratitude, resentment, personality, psychological distress, altruism, social desirability, recovery capital, alcohol-related God locus of control, self-esteem, narcissism, health, spirituality, and religiosity, were collected at baseline. • The dataset includes open-text answers submitted each night about the high point and low point of the day that could be analyzed qualitatively.

Data description
The accompanying SPSS Statistics data file contains 904 columns of the self-report responses of 113 participants. Table 1 lists demographic variables collected with their labels, while Table 2 lists recovery-related variables and labels. An overview of the measures from the baseline survey and the daily surveys can be found in Tables 3 and 4 , respectively.
D_Health In general, how would you rate your health?
D_Emp Are you employed? 1 = "Yes, full time" 2 = "No" 3 = "Yes, part time" Note. Additional demographic information has been omitted to save space. See full dataset for all available variables .

Materials
The survey was created and administered to participants through the Qualtrics platform. Informed consent was obtained electronically prior to participation. Anonymity was ensured through the assignment of unique identifiers at the time of consent. The participant was required to enter this identification number to complete each daily survey to enable linking daily data to baseline measures while maintaining participant anonymity.  Note. Additional demographic information has been omitted to save space. See full dataset for all available variables . Altruistic Personality Scale (APS; Rushton et al. , 1981 [4] ). A 20-item scale used to measure baseline trait-level lifetime altruistic behavior using a 5-point scale.
Kessler Non-Specific Psychological Distress Scale (K-6; Kessler et al. , 2002 [7] ). A 6-item measure of distress experienced over a period of 30 days as indicated by responses on a 5-point scale.
Social Desirability Scale -Short version (SDS; Strahan & Gerbasi, [8] ). A scale containing 10 true or false items to measure the participant's tendency to respond in a socially acceptable manner.
Alcohol-God Locus of Control Scale (AGLOC; Murray et al. , 2006 [9] ). A measure of God/Higher Power control beliefs over alcoholism, calculated using a 6-point Likert response format.
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE; Rosenberg, 1965 [10] ). A 10-item, 4-point scale that measures global self-worth by evaluating both positive and negative feelings about the self.
Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10; Vilsaint et al. , 2017 [11] . A 10-item measure designed to quantify internal and external resources available to individuals initiating and sustaining recovery that is measured on a 6-point scale.

Daily measures
Service to Others in Sobriety Scale (SOS; Pagano et al. , 2010 [12] ). A 12-item measure of the frequency of prosocial behavior on that day indicated by yes/no responses. Modified for daily use.
Gratitude Adjectives Checklist (GAC; Emmons & McCullough, 2003 [13] ). A 3-item measure commonly used to assess participant's level of daily gratitude as indicated by scores on a 5-point scale.
The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al. , 1988 [16] ). A 10-item measure of daily mood as indicated by participant response on a 5-point scale.

Procedure
Recruitment of members of Alcoholics Anonymous was conducted online through advertisements on social media sites (i.e., Twitter, Facebook), the use of recovery-related e-mail listservs, and, subsequently, snowball sampling. Participants who agreed to be contacted regarding future studies related to recovery were also contacted via e-mail (i.e., Life in Recovery Study 1 and 2; LaBelle & Edelstein, 2018 [17] ). To be eligible for inclusion, respondents had to be at least 18 years of age, an active member of AA (self-defined) with a sponsor and a minimum of 90 days of sobriety. During recruitment, participants were advised they would be compensated for their time with a single payment of up to $20; The total amount of compensation was calculated based on the receipt of $15 for initial survey completion and an additional bonus payment of $5 for the completion of all seven days of daily reporting. Participants received and responded to the baseline survey via their laptop or desktop computer; daily report surveys could be completed on any device but were optimized for completion on a mobile phone for ease in reporting.
To ensure that the optimal sample size had been achieved, daily reporting commenced five days following the initial survey launch and baseline data collection. Over the following seven days, participants were asked to complete a 10-minute survey each evening, which required them to reflect on prosocial behavior, mood, gratitude, selfishness and basic daily health behaviors. To increase the response rate, email and text message reminders containing a survey link were sent to participants each evening at 8 pm in each participant's designated time zone. Response rates to the daily survey ranged between 72.6% to 92.9% each night ( M = 20.1%).
The analyses used in the resultant article was multilevel modeling with daily reports nested within individuals (LaBelle, 2020 [18] ). These data may be reused for cross-sectional studies to look at relationships among the study variables, or across days to assess individual differences in behavior.

Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships which have, or could be perceived to have, influenced the work reported in this article.

Ethics Statement
This project was reviewed and cleared by the institutional review board at the first author's university. Informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to data collection.

Supplementary materials
Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105983 .